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I made a android game and I want to convert it to multiplayer game with online servers.So i got a domain name and hosting.But I have no experience on websites,domains etc.Do i need some html codes for ...

I am starting to code a browser game, I have a rudimentary chat set up, and would like to start creating the battle engine, I have a general idea of how I want it to play out, but I don't know where I ...

So I've never made a game before besides a basic 4:3 aspect ratio flapper, so bare with me. Recently I had this wild idea that I wanted to make this complected (for a 2d) game in cca. Unfortunately ...

I am playing around with php on server and html/js client for a game/experiment. Right now, real time data is being updated and queried from mysql but in the very near future I want to expand from a ...

How Unity can work on Web if the code is written in C#? I understand that you can compile the C# code to a shared library and use it in Java (for Android) in ObjectiveC (for iOS) to enable Unity on ...

I am attempting to create the equivalent of a Google Maps map for a private Ultima Online server, with a custom map replacing the default map.
I'd like to allow players to pin important locations on ...

I'm working on the application of 2D web-based traffic simulation. I am looking for a library that is suitable for my application.
I'm making an application based on discrete event simulation, each ...

I'm trying to decide between keyboard and mouse movement controls for a web-based multiplayer. It would be quite resource-intensive to use the WASD-keys and AJAX the server with controls every second.
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Some clients asked me to develop 2D web-based games and later on they might want to release those games on mobile platforms.
I know Corona and I don't want to rewrite my code twice. Is it possible to ...

Given all the recent improvements on web platform (webgl, websockets, etc.), it should be now possible to see great games on web. However my biggest concern so far has been around serving and storing ...

Imagine I have an HTML5 web game where the user can get points by doing certain activities. The game can be played offline, so there's not necessarily a live internet connection (note: this makes this ...

I made a simple Flash game in C# using Unity3D. It interacts well with a web page: There is a textbox for the player to type their name and that name is used in-game.
Now I want to pass the player's ...

In many free-to-play games, play will be rate limited in some manner by a resource that you naturally earn on a timed interval, but can opt to increase artificially through buy-ins.
A current example ...

I'm building a game on Flash that will run on web/Android/iOS.
The game is 2d isometric.I heard that developing mobile apps on Flash sucks and the graphics looks just awful.It'd be quite uncomfortable ...

I've never dealt with sending/receiving data from web servers in my games, so I absolutely have no idea how to do this. I tried googling for a good solution but couldn't find anything satisfying.
I ...

I am about to develop a web game that is similar to board games like Risk, and iOS games like Lux and Strategery. I am curious to know what the concept behind the AI for such games should be like.
I ...

I was just wondering if it would be possible somehow to load locally saved web pages into a game. My primary use for them would be as menus, helping to navigate between rooms.
I know about the built ...

I am wondering with what kind of languages such a multi-player online game was written?
I am trying to find a list of web programming languages which could be sufficient for both of these websites. ...

I'm new with HTML5 canvas and Box2DWeb and I'm trying to make an Asteroids game. So far I think I'm doing okay, but one thing I'm struggling to comprehend is how positioning works in relation to the ...

I am looking to make a 3D FPS that runs inside web browsers. I looked into using WebGL, but it didn't seem far enough along into development. I decided on using RoR because Ruby was a language I knew.
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I'm developing small game using c++ and OpenGL. I would like to post it also in Chrome Web Store.
I've seen that a lot of apps are just redirection to specific url. I can use Java Applet and JNI to ...

I'm assigned a task of doing the preliminary research stuff for a web-based MMO RPG. Now my buggiest problem here is "web based" vs "MMO RPG". I did some research about time keeping systems and I'm ...

Just to get something straight; by "portal", I mean a website that frequently publishes a certain type of games, has a blog, some articles, maybe some tutorials and so on. All of these things are not ...

I am working on a small project and we have a few programmers on the job. We are using subversion to commit updates and keep all developers up to date on their workstations.
However, we have yet to ...

I have seen some sites which shows servers(for online games) from various parts of world with there name and ip's. I am looking forward to develop something of same sort.
But the issue is how to get ...

A little background info: I'm just about to graduate university with a software engineering degree. I have a fair amount of experience with more "serious" programming languages (C++/Java/C#), plenty ...

I have been looking around for clues on the subject but I'm not convinced to commit to javascript as my primary scripting language.
Currently I have started with lua. But I fear it will be a limiting ...